IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL133012
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL133012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL133012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21051
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.3720448
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1595522
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 3880 feet W & 3900 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL133—Monroe
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL133—Monroe County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-C2—Waterloo, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—152

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    212

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26004; observed in push tube
    B11t—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26005; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480354; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480354
    B12t—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26006; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 480356; continuous - phpvsfiid 480356
    B21t—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26007; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 480355; continuous - phpvsfiid 480355
    B22t—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26008; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 480357; continuous - phpvsfiid 480357
    B23t—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26009; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 480359; continuous - phpvsfiid 480359
    B24t—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26010; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 480358; continuous - phpvsfiid 480358
    B3t—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # IL26011; observed in push tube